Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2013/Candidates/Secret/Statement

Secret

Coordinator's note: This candidate has expressed their wish to withdraw from the election; their name will not feature on the ballot.

Ah, ArbCom, where would the project be without you. My name is Jorge Aranda, I am 25 years old, a native of Miami, Florida and the owner of a small trading card business while recovering from recent thyroid surgery.

Why would anyone in their right mind would run for ArbCom, especially someone with a “questionable past” you might ask? Well I believe that experience and common sense are needed for this job, as well as someone with free time to read into each argument and make suggestions for every case, something which I currently have because of my recent surgery. The last few years was probably one of the worst years ArbCom ever had. It's clear that they lost sense with the community with several unpopular decisions and we lost several of our best arbitrators as a result. My platform is primarily focused on issues concerning BLPs, something in which the community can't seem to find consensus on and I feel ArbCom needs to be more involved on, although people might say its not within its reach. I’m strongly against process wonkery and I also believe that ArbCom needs to focus on the community first, listening closely to any valid concerns they have, and avoid losing valued contributors. I would look at each case very delicately and use common sense in each situation, while respecting the privacy of all involved.

I am an administrator, I requested desysopping back in September because I'm pretty much disgusted on how things are run on this project. Ignorance of BLP policies, helpless in editor retention, pure process wonkery and arbcom bickering over stupid things among them, thus it needs fresh blood. I recently asked and received the tools back. I’m also not following the civility reform platform my fellow candidates are using. I feel if I get elected to ArbCom, it would be a welcome change that would help the community greatly and I hope you all agree.

My accounts are Aranda56/Jaranda and Secret (renamed), neither of which been actively used recently. I also went by Moneyballing back in 2006 while I had my password hacked during a GRAWP attack and a undeclared clean start account that I quickly abandoned and ArbCom was aware. I will identify to the foundation if elected and glad to answer any question.

Note updated 13:21, 13 November 2013 (UTC)